Christopher Ewing
@christopherewing.bsky.social
Queer historian at Purdue University working on sex/tourism, race, crime in Germany, the US, and lots of other places.
Author of The Color of Desire (Cornell 2023).
he/him.
Author of The Color of Desire (Cornell 2023).
he/him.
Endlich!!!
I haven't gotten my copy yet, but word is it lives! Can't wait to hold it in my hand. So grateful to Elisa Barth, my translator, for making me make a bit of sense in German. And @philipphoelzing.bsky.social for seeing this out into the world!
www.suhrkamp.de/buch/jennife...
www.suhrkamp.de/buch/jennife...
September 18, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Endlich!!!
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Hello Bluesky! I took a peek beyond the nineteenth-century for Pride!
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Celebrating the Past While Constraining the Present: Queer National Parks in New York City
The National Park Service sanitizes and restructures historic queer spaces like Stonewall and Jacob Riis Park, attempting - and often failing - to suppress modern resistance and joy.
niche-canada.org
June 22, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Hello Bluesky! I took a peek beyond the nineteenth-century for Pride!
niche-canada.org/2026/06/19/c...
niche-canada.org/2026/06/19/c...
Had a great time writing on the Black feminist politics of violence in the 90s for this collection and its marvelous editors. Can’t wait to see it out!
Excited to share the cover of "Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany," a forthcoming book I co-edited with Lauren Stokes.
A history of racism and antiracist activism in East, West, and unified Germany—and why it matters today.
30% off from Cornell UP with code 09BCARD: tinyurl.com/RADGcornell
A history of racism and antiracist activism in East, West, and unified Germany—and why it matters today.
30% off from Cornell UP with code 09BCARD: tinyurl.com/RADGcornell
June 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Had a great time writing on the Black feminist politics of violence in the 90s for this collection and its marvelous editors. Can’t wait to see it out!
Had a great time chatting with @hannahva390.bsky.social and @paolamedgonz.bsky.social about queer fascists, sex tourism, and the state of antiracism in Germany. Also Space Lesbians.
Check your pride on this week's new episode with @christopherewing.bsky.social ! We discuss his book "The Color of Desire: The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1970"
Listen on anchor.fm/theoryish
Listen on anchor.fm/theoryish
May 26, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Had a great time chatting with @hannahva390.bsky.social and @paolamedgonz.bsky.social about queer fascists, sex tourism, and the state of antiracism in Germany. Also Space Lesbians.
Thursday, April 16, at 10:45am EST, @laurenstokes.bsky.social will be giving the Purdue History Lab inaugural lecture, sponsored by @ces-europe.bsky.social and the Center for American Political History, Media, and Technology!
Join us in UNIV 229 or register here:
purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us in UNIV 229 or register here:
purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Thursday, April 16, at 10:45am EST, @laurenstokes.bsky.social will be giving the Purdue History Lab inaugural lecture, sponsored by @ces-europe.bsky.social and the Center for American Political History, Media, and Technology!
Join us in UNIV 229 or register here:
purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us in UNIV 229 or register here:
purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Join us in 30 min to discuss queer history 🌈🤗
Looking forward to the virtual book launch of Reading Queer Media this Friday at 10:30am EST with @sebboo.bsky.social!
Join us for a discussion with authors about new methods in queer history.
Zoom registration here: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us for a discussion with authors about new methods in queer history.
Zoom registration here: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 10, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Join us in 30 min to discuss queer history 🌈🤗
Just got my copy of @schuneke.bsky.social fabulous new book! Important new research on the both disturbing and inspiring history of queer women in Nazi Germany. All the more necessary now.
April 8, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Just got my copy of @schuneke.bsky.social fabulous new book! Important new research on the both disturbing and inspiring history of queer women in Nazi Germany. All the more necessary now.
Looking forward to the virtual book launch of Reading Queer Media this Friday at 10:30am EST with @sebboo.bsky.social!
Join us for a discussion with authors about new methods in queer history.
Zoom registration here: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us for a discussion with authors about new methods in queer history.
Zoom registration here: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 7, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Looking forward to the virtual book launch of Reading Queer Media this Friday at 10:30am EST with @sebboo.bsky.social!
Join us for a discussion with authors about new methods in queer history.
Zoom registration here: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us for a discussion with authors about new methods in queer history.
Zoom registration here: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Excited to share the project that we’ve been working on for the last few years! Join us for virtual the book launch of Reading Queer Media in the German-Speaking World. Registration: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
March 11, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Excited to share the project that we’ve been working on for the last few years! Join us for virtual the book launch of Reading Queer Media in the German-Speaking World. Registration: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Copies arrived: special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" I've edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social - with articles by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social
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February 15, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Copies arrived: special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" I've edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social - with articles by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social
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A reminder that I’ll be hosting a virtual discussion with Akane Kanai about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM in two weeks. Registration below!
Spotted in the wild! Register for a virtual conversation with Akane Kanai about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM here: gmu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 12, 2026 at 2:15 PM
A reminder that I’ll be hosting a virtual discussion with Akane Kanai about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM in two weeks. Registration below!
This is going to be an awesome resource for my global queer history class! Really excited to read
‘Tracing back to Ming-Qing homoerotic literature and probing into contemporary danmei and GL fiction, this book stages a vibrant dialogue between the queer past and present, and achieves a delicate balance between the serious and the popular.' On Queer Literature in the Sinosphere
February 10, 2026 at 1:41 AM
This is going to be an awesome resource for my global queer history class! Really excited to read
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‘Tracing back to Ming-Qing homoerotic literature and probing into contemporary danmei and GL fiction, this book stages a vibrant dialogue between the queer past and present, and achieves a delicate balance between the serious and the popular.' On Queer Literature in the Sinosphere
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
‘Tracing back to Ming-Qing homoerotic literature and probing into contemporary danmei and GL fiction, this book stages a vibrant dialogue between the queer past and present, and achieves a delicate balance between the serious and the popular.' On Queer Literature in the Sinosphere
Excited to see this out! I really enjoyed contributing thoughts racist violence, “gang wars,” and policing in ‘90s Berlin. Thank you @swensteinberg.bsky.social and Raphael Rössel for putting together this important special issue!
Hot off the press: I edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social a special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" - with contributions by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social
metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...
metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...
January 23, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Excited to see this out! I really enjoyed contributing thoughts racist violence, “gang wars,” and policing in ‘90s Berlin. Thank you @swensteinberg.bsky.social and Raphael Rössel for putting together this important special issue!
I’m so pleased to see our project now in print! - the result of a beautiful collaboration with the amazing @sebboo.bsky.social
This feels a bit tone deaf almost LinkedIn to post about this right now, but @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are extremely happy to share that our volume and the brilliant thoughts of our contributors were published yesterday by Palgrave 👇
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Reading Queer Media in the German-Speaking World
This book places print media at the centre of studying queer German history through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
link.springer.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I’m so pleased to see our project now in print! - the result of a beautiful collaboration with the amazing @sebboo.bsky.social
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The conference report by Frederik Doktor about our #Workshop Intimacies on the Move that explored the intersecting #histories of #mobilities, #migration, #gender and #sexuality has just been published. I so much enjoyed meeting everybody and discussing their fascinating research!
Tagber: Intimacy on the Move. Bodies, Economies and Desires across the Long 20th Century
https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-158076
Flensburg, 07.07.2025-08.07.2025, Benno Gammerl, EUI Florence; Nikolaos Papadogiannis, University of Stirling; Christiane Reinecke, Europa-Universität …
https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-158076
Flensburg, 07.07.2025-08.07.2025, Benno Gammerl, EUI Florence; Nikolaos Papadogiannis, University of Stirling; Christiane Reinecke, Europa-Universität …
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October 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The conference report by Frederik Doktor about our #Workshop Intimacies on the Move that explored the intersecting #histories of #mobilities, #migration, #gender and #sexuality has just been published. I so much enjoyed meeting everybody and discussing their fascinating research!
This volume was the result of over four(!) years of collaboration with @sebboo.bsky.social and the magnificent authors who contributed chapters. I’m so pleased to see it out next month!
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
October 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This volume was the result of over four(!) years of collaboration with @sebboo.bsky.social and the magnificent authors who contributed chapters. I’m so pleased to see it out next month!
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
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"Boundaries of #Queerness" has gotten its first review! Thanks Douglas Page and @poppublicsphere.bsky.social for the considerate and thorough engagement with the book. Particularly pleased to be in the excellent company of @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social and @christopherewing.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The Politics of Sexual Minorities | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
The Politics of Sexual Minorities
doi.org
September 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"Boundaries of #Queerness" has gotten its first review! Thanks Douglas Page and @poppublicsphere.bsky.social for the considerate and thorough engagement with the book. Particularly pleased to be in the excellent company of @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social and @christopherewing.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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CES is excited to announce our second annual Tobin Distinguished Lecture! Historian and author Dr. Andrea Rottmann will give a talk entitled "From Weimar to Berlin: Queer Democratic Citizenship through Hilde Radusch's Five Lives" on September 12, 12-1:30 PM in BuTo 225 and over Zoom. See you there!
September 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
CES is excited to announce our second annual Tobin Distinguished Lecture! Historian and author Dr. Andrea Rottmann will give a talk entitled "From Weimar to Berlin: Queer Democratic Citizenship through Hilde Radusch's Five Lives" on September 12, 12-1:30 PM in BuTo 225 and over Zoom. See you there!
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This very interesting event is forthcoming!
Pleased to announce with @npapadogian.bsky.social a new books event series, featuring Maria Alexopoulou discussing her two(!) recent books with @laurenstokes.bsky.social.
Virtual event, Monday, September 22, at 12pm EDT.
purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Virtual event, Monday, September 22, at 12pm EDT.
purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This very interesting event is forthcoming!
Pleased to announce with @npapadogian.bsky.social a new books event series, featuring Maria Alexopoulou discussing her two(!) recent books with @laurenstokes.bsky.social.
Virtual event, Monday, September 22, at 12pm EDT.
purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Virtual event, Monday, September 22, at 12pm EDT.
purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
August 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Pleased to announce with @npapadogian.bsky.social a new books event series, featuring Maria Alexopoulou discussing her two(!) recent books with @laurenstokes.bsky.social.
Virtual event, Monday, September 22, at 12pm EDT.
purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Virtual event, Monday, September 22, at 12pm EDT.
purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Going back to Flensburg just for the Zimstschnecken. Than you for hosting us all, @sebboo.bsky.social, in dem echten Norden!
Looking forward to hosting so many known and new faces in the North for the following days. Wind, Zimtschnecken and Seagulls for everyone!
On my way to this fantastic workshop! Let's see how long it takes to get to Flensburg today, since travelling with Deutsche Bahn has become such an unpredictable adventure these days.. (today's reason for delay is a combination of vandalism and fires along the tracks)
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
July 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Going back to Flensburg just for the Zimstschnecken. Than you for hosting us all, @sebboo.bsky.social, in dem echten Norden!
So excited for you, @jonahgarde.bsky.social! I cannot wait to get my hands on a copy
Feels a bit surreal but Trans* Geschichten der Moderne is now available for preorders and available open access after June 30: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Trans* Geschichten der Moderne
Auseinandersetzungen in Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Medien: warum Trans* Geschichte und Kolonialgeschichte nicht isoliert voneinander betrachtet werden können.
www.transcript-verlag.de
June 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
So excited for you, @jonahgarde.bsky.social! I cannot wait to get my hands on a copy
Had a great time chatting with @pinatravels.bsky.social and @podthenorth.bsky.social for Curious Tourism about sex tourism, sex work, and how travelers can think about these issues. Spoiler: it’s complicated!
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Let's Talk About Sex Tourism
Voyascape: Travel Podcast Network · Episode
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June 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Had a great time chatting with @pinatravels.bsky.social and @podthenorth.bsky.social for Curious Tourism about sex tourism, sex work, and how travelers can think about these issues. Spoiler: it’s complicated!
open.spotify.com/episode/0B6O...
open.spotify.com/episode/0B6O...
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Am #CGI der #UniInnsbruck ist zurzeit die Historikerin @tnflorvil.bsky.social als Gastprofessorin tätig. Wir freuen uns sehr über ihren Input, den tollen Vortrag über #MayAyim, über Gespräche mit Studierenden und die Lehrveranstaltung: www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/...
US-Historikerin Tiffany N. Florvil als Gastwissenschaftlerin am CGI
Das Center Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung Innsbruck (CGI) durfte im Rahmen der LFUI-Gastprofessuren im Juni 2025 die renommierte Zeithistorikerin und Kulturwissenschaftlerin Tiffany N. Florvi...
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June 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Am #CGI der #UniInnsbruck ist zurzeit die Historikerin @tnflorvil.bsky.social als Gastprofessorin tätig. Wir freuen uns sehr über ihren Input, den tollen Vortrag über #MayAyim, über Gespräche mit Studierenden und die Lehrveranstaltung: www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/...